Religion and public life in Canada : historical and comparative perspectives

Religion and public life in Canada : historical and comparative perspectives / edited by Marguerite Van Die.

As this collection of scholarly case studies reveals, religion once played a major public role in all aspects of Canadian society, including politics, education, and culture.

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Other Authors: Van Die, Marguerite (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Christianity and politics > Canada.
Religion and politics > Canada.
Religion and state > Canada.
RELIGION > History.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Religious.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Christianity and politics
Religion and politics
Religion and state
Staat
Kirche
Politik
Religion
Canada
Kanada
Electronic books.
e-books.
Livres numériques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Constructing public religions at private sites: the Anglican Church in the shadow of disestablishment / William Westfall
  • Evangelical and public life in Southern New Brunswick, 1830-1880 / T.W. Acheson
  • Religion and public space in Protestant Toronto, 1880-1900 / Brian Clarek
  • Elaborating a public culture: the Catholic Church in nineteenth century Quebec / Roberto Perin
  • The state, the church and Indian residential schools in Canada / J.R. Miller
  • Missionaries, scholars and diplomats: China missions nd Canadian public life / Alvyn Austin
  • Continental divides: North American civil war and religion as at least three stories / Mark Noll
  • Evangelical moral reform: women and the war against tobacco, 1874-1900 / Sharon Anne Cook
  • Religion and the shaping of 'public woman': a post-suffrage casse study / Mary Kinnear
  • Young man Knowles: Christianity, politics adn the 'making of a better world' / Eleanor J. Stebner.
  • Premier E.C. Manning, Back to the Bible Hour, and fundamentalism in Canada / David Marshall
  • Catholicism's 'Quiet Revolution': maintenant and the new public Catholicism in Quebec after 1960 / David Seljak
  • The Christian recessional in Ontario's public schools / R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar
  • From a private to a public religion: the history of the public service Christian Fellowship / Don Page
  • 'Justice and only justice thou shalt pursue': considerations on the social voice of Canada's Reform Rabbis / Gerald Tulchinsky
  • Canadian Mennonites and a widening world / Harold Jantz
  • Sikhism and secular authority / Hugh Johnston.

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